Greece

Turkey’s newly appointed EU Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Jan. 2 expressed hope that Greece, the bloc’s new term president, would continue to support Turkey’s membership bid and that new chapters would be opened during its presidency.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have strongly condemned a violent raid by Greek police on the main headquarters of Greece's national broadcaster ERT in Athens yesterday.

Greek riot police stormed the building of former state television ERT on Thursday and evicted dozens of protesters occupying it since June when the government abruptly shut the broadcaster, police officials said.

Greek police fired teargas to disperse school guards trying to enter the Administrative Reforms Ministry in central Athens on Monday as teachers began a strike against public sector layoffs and forced transfers.

Greece's temporary public television network launched its first live broadcast Wednesday, more than two months after the controversial shutdown of state broadcaster ERT caused a major political crisis.